Hence, worked examples may foster understanding only for those learners,
who are willing and able to engage in sufficiently deep elaborations of the examples’
contents (i.e., self-explanations, Renkl 1997, 2002). Less successful learners may fail to
relate the specifics of the example problem to the underlying abstract principles. For the
purpose of exploring the potential of animations to counteract these problems associated
with learning from worked examples, hybrid animations were developed.